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For 7,946 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lord of War
    Lord of War is advocacy entertainment -- an act of mainstream provocation -- and, for the most part, it works unusually well.
  2. Corpse Bride
    Burton, who directed the film with animator Mike Johnson, has rarely been in brisker, friskier form.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thing About My Folks
    It's a family comedy-drama that wants to pluck the heartstrings but keeps getting tangled in its own tinny sentiment.
  4. Stupid Boy
    Garçon Stupide was shot on digital video and is the rare piece of European sexual realism centered completely on a boy's awakening.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G
    If the movie's not as bad as it sounds, it's not all that great, either.
  6. Venom
    If ridiculous, hackneyed, gratuitously violent slasher movies aren't your thing, don't go near Venom with a 10-foot snake pole.
  7. Separate Lies
    Fellowes is so desperate for us to like these people that, despite how guilty everyone seems, there's scarcely any pleasure in the film for us.
  8. The Future of Food
    Anyone looking for a more practical horror film than ''The Fog" should try The Future of Food.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man
    Dreadful.
  10. An Unfinished Life
    Like most of Hallström's Hollywood movies ("The Cider House Rules," "Chocolat"), this one is excruciatingly tasteful.
  11. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The fun of these movies is that Linney often seems too refined for such greasy junk, but there she is anyway, hamming it down as it were.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cote d'Azur
    A broad, bawdy, silly French farce set on the Riviera in high season, it's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer-gone-horribly-wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs.
  13. Keane
    If Keane is a downer, it's a stupendously well-conceived one.
  14. Green Street Hooligans
    The movie, though, is nonsense. At its most credible, the story evokes fond memories of the adult drug narcs hiding among American high schoolers on ''21 Jump Street."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Music from the Inside Out
    Daniel Anker's Music From the Inside Out is so intent on divining the mysteries behind the creative act that it comes up frustratingly short on specifics.
  16. Transporter 2
    A sequel that makes it clear that the outrageous antics of the first movie had a one-time-only charm.
  17. A Sound of Thunder
    The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Underclassman
    Saved from total puff only by the obnoxiousness of its star, who seems to be laboring under the delusion that he's the next Eddie Murphy.
  19. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is funnier and less awkward than her last concert film, 2004's ''CHO Revolution," but nowhere near as consistently gut busting as 2002's ''Notorious C.H.O." or (first and still best) 2000's ''I'm the One That I Want."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Constant Gardener
    A predictable conspiracy thriller that somehow ends up diminishing the real urgency of the West's humanitarian disconnect from Africa. If it sends audiences home to log on to the Amnesty International website, terrific -- but that still doesn't make it a very good movie.
  21. William Eggleston in the Real World
    The documentary is elliptical, with a slow, drifty rhythm. It presents an up-close but impersonal view of Eggleston.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brothers Grimm
    An absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any right to be.
  23. The Cave
    It's ultimately just a rigorous personal training film made by people who don't seem to like movies or the people who go to them.
  24. Undiscovered
    It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
  25. The Baxter
    A self-consciously arch work of hipsterism that's more styled than funny.
  26. The Memory of a Killer
    Entertaining.
  27. Wall
    Coming and going through the wall's checkpoints is a tiresome and undignified process that makes US airport security look like a cocktail reception.
  28. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    A lot of the credit for what's right with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes to the screenplay, which Carell and Apatow wrote. They like these characters and, when it matters, they dare to give them feelings, none truer than Andy's.
  29. Red Eye
    A one-trick action thriller that feels like a poor cousin of an episode of ''24." Call it ''12."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valiant
    The top-secret message this pigeon is carrying reads ''Wait for the DVD."
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